Hidden fields
Books Books
" I passed my brother and cousin: They read in their books of prayer; I read in my book of songs I bought at the Sligo fair. When we come at the end of time, To Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the... "
New Outlook - Page 261
1913
Full view - About this book

The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, Volume 7

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1913 - 1048 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate ; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...fiddler of Dooney ! ' And dance like a wave of the sea. 867 672. ff^hen Tou are Old WHEN you arc old and gray and full of sleep And, nodding by the fire, take...
Full view - About this book

History of English Literature

Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 514 pages
...Fiddler of Dooney, who feels sure that St. Peter will ultimately call him through heaven's gate — And when the folk there spy me, They will all come...is the fiddler of Dooney ! " And dance like a wave on the sea. Besides editing the works of the English poet William Blake, Mr. Yeats has written prose...
Full view - About this book

The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2

1918 - 2062 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; a Wayside Inn " [APRIL 18-10, 1775] all come up to me, With "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!" And dance like a wave of the sea. Wittiam...
Full view - About this book

Such Nonsense!: An Anthology

Carolyn Wells - 1918 - 233 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits But call me first through the gate. For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...love to dance. And when the folk there spy me, They all come up to me, With, "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!" And dance like a wave of the sea. WILLIAM...
Full view - About this book

Such Nonsense!: An Anthology

Carolyn Wells - 1918 - 290 pages
...chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance. And when the folk there spy me, They all come up to me, With, "Here is the fiddler of Dooney !" And dance like a wave of the sea. WILLIAM: BUTLER YEATS. The last line is cribb'd, but not cabin'd nor confin'd. ADVICE TO GRANDSONS...
Full view - About this book

Selected Poems

William Butler Yeats - 1921 - 328 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...fiddler of Dooney!" And dance like a wave of the sea. [9] THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker...
Full view - About this book

An Anthology of Recent Poetry

Lettice D'Oyly Walters - 1920 - 164 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...fiddler of Dooney!" And dance like a wave of the sea. WB YEATS THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build...
Full view - About this book

Modern Verse, British and American

Anita P. Forbes - 1920 - 328 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate ; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...fiddler of Dooney !" And dance like a wave of the sea. — William B. Teats THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOE THE FIRST TIME Zeus, Brazen-thunder-hurler, Cloud-whirler,...
Full view - About this book

An Anthology of Recent Poetry

Lettice D'Oyly Walters - 1920 - 172 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: -C23And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With "Here is the fiddler of Dooney!"...
Full view - About this book

Selected Poems

William Butler Yeats - 1921 - 330 pages
...Peter sitting in state, He will smile on the three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil...of Dooney! " And dance like a wave of the sea. THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF